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Quichotte, un représentant de commerce vieillissant obsédé par le “réel irréel” de la télévision, tombe éperdument amoureux d’une reine du petit écran et s’embarque, à travers les routes d’Amérique, dans une quête picaresque pour lui prouver qu’il est digne de sa main....
Le jour de l’investiture de Barack Obama, un énigmatique millionnaire venu d’un lointain Orient prend ses quartiers dans une communauté préservée au coeur de Greenwich Village avec ses trois fils adultes aussi brillants qu’excentriques. René Unterlinden, jeune...
Deux ans, huit mois et vingt-huit nuits est un conte merveilleux qui interroge notre vie contemporaine à la lumière de l’histoire et de la mythologie. Échappés de leur univers aussi fabuleux qu’ennuyeux, des djinns viennent mêler leur immortalité fascinée à la finitude...
LE livre le plus attendu de Rushdie : celui qui raconte la fatwa, la vie d'un écrivain basculant soudain dans la peur et dans la clandestinité, dont le paradoxe est d'avoir engendré une célébrité phénoménale. Le 14 février 1989, le jour de la Saint Valentin, Salman...
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***In a tour-de-force that is a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.Inspired by the...
**New York Times bestseller**A Guardian / Observer Book of the YearWhen powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, and move into a grand...
Salman Rushdie, a self-described ‘emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two’, explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what it is like to...
Blending history, mythology and a timeless love story, this is a satirical, magical masterpiece from one of the greatest living writers.In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no...
Haroun's father is the greatest of all storyletters. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift to his father. So he...
From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down.On Valentine’s Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life...
No dia 14 de Fevereiro de 1989, Dia dos Namorados, Salman recebeu um telefonema de uma jornalista da BBC a dizer-lhe que fora «condenado à morte» pelo aiatola Khomeini. Era a primeira vez que ouvia a palavra fatwa. O seu crime? Ter escrito ...
Flapping Eagle is a young Indian given the gift of immortality after drinking a magic fluid. Tiring of the burden of immortal life he sets off to find the mystical Calf Island, where he can rejoin the human race. His journey is peopled with strange assortments of...
‘The first great rock ’n’ roll novel in the English language’ The TimesOn Valentine’s Day, 1989, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, disappears in a devastating earthquake. Her lover, the singer Ormus Cama, cannot accept that he has lost her, and so begins his...
This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West. Fantasy and realism collide as a rickshaw driver writes letters home describing his film star career in Bombay; a mispronunciation leads to romance and an...
Just before dawn one winter’s morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India’s legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices....
An extraordinary and vivid introduction to the country of Nicaragua and its politics from the Booker-winning author of Midnight’s Children.In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman...
The novel that set the stage for his modern classic,The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie’s phantasmagoric epic Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared everything. They shared the symptoms of pregnancy, they shared the son that they all claim to have...
‘Salman Rushdie's greatest novel’ Sunday TimesMoraes ‘Moor’ Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with him on a route that takes him...
On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To save him from slipping...
WITH A NEW 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him...
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